Multi-cloud environments are the answer to fostering growth while reducing costs, minimizing risks, and increasing agility. Cisco and their partners are connecting private, public, and hybrid clouds into an interconnected global "cloud of clouds": the Intercloud. Unlike other hybrid approaches, Cisco's cloud strategy allows for workload portability across the entire Intercloud. An open, standards-based global infrastructure makes this possible to overcome the security, regulatory, and compliance issues some businesses are facing with existing public and hybrid cloud solutions.